(27) LEÓN AUDITORIUM.1994-2002.

The Leon
Auditorium pays homage to Ortega y Gasset’s concept of ‘seeing and being seen’,
while responding to the model consolidated by the Manuel de Falla Auditorium in
Granada. It is an exercise in realism, its small size guaranteeing a certain
economy of means, and also reducing its presence in the city. It is precisely
this small-scale perception that leads to the exhibition hall being conceived
as a separate piece, allowing the building to simultaneously benefit from the
historically established costume of small foregrounds while also orienting the
building towards the San Marcos Hostal, and by this means outlining a new
visual order on the existing platform.The auditorium thus
turns its lion’s head in a plateresque echo of the San Marcos church, its face
constructed as a stack of windows in which two diverse orders appear: the
perimeter of the apertures that refer to the geometry of the construction, and
the inner aperture of each window, fruit of the necessities of the
interior. The constructed plane thus
oscillates between a group of stacked windows that are equal in their being and
different in their form of being. Additionally, the main volume of the
building, relegated to the background, projects its section until it becomes an
elevation; an extruded volume whose profile is lightened by placing more
emphasis on the surface than in the mass.